Here’s a fun idea: Start an office pool on when the next mass shooting in America will occur

Thursday

Sep 19, 2013 at 3:05 PM

As I reported HERE yesterday, mass shootings in America are occurring at an ever faster pace these days. There have been three of them in just the past 14 months.

Hence, it seems to me that this quickening trend provides an opportunity for ordinary workaday folks to cash in.

An office pool could work like this: Participants pay one dollar for the right to submit guesses on when the next firearms massacre will occur. Entries will include an exact date — Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2014, for example. Every time a week passes without any such mass shootings, each participant pays ...

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Pat Cunningham

As I reported HERE yesterday, mass shootings in America are occurring at an ever faster pace these days. There have been three of them in just the past 14 months.

Hence, it seems to me that this quickening trend provides an opportunity for ordinary workaday folks to cash in.

An office pool could work like this: Participants pay one dollar for the right to submit guesses on when the next firearms massacre will occur. Entries will include an exact date — Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2014, for example. Every time a week passes without any such mass shootings, each participant pays ...